LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC: CUMBIA

It is a music genre popular all throughout

Latin America.
It originated in Colombia and Panama, from
the musical and cultural fusion of Native
Colombians and Native Panamanians.
This was brought by the slaves from Africa.
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It used to be a courtship dance practiced
among the African population, which was
later mixed with Amerindian steps and
European and African instruments and
musical characteristics.
It is very popular in the Andean region and
the Southern Cone, and is more popular than
the salsa in many parts of these regions.
LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC: TANGO
It is a dance that evolved in Buenos
Aires at the end of the 19 century.
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It is probably derived from the

MILONGA – a lively, suggestive
Argentinian dance, and the HABANERA
of Cuba and the West Indies.
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By the 1920s, it had become a popular
dance in Europe and the United States,
and had been transformed into a
flowing, ELEGANT series of steps
accompanied by somewhat
MELANCHOLY music with a
characteristic TANGO beat.
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It pushed the envelope in an even more
erotic direction.
LA CUMPARSITA was among the early
international hits.
Its craze took New York by storm
during World War I.
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RUDOLPH VALENTINO created an
international sensation in a steamy
scene of his film “THE FOUR
HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE” in
1921.
 LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC: SALSA
It has evolved from the CUBAN son and
other genres as a popular music of urban
Caribbean Hispanics.
As with the earlier mambo, salsa was
influenced by jazz harmony and
arrangement.
It developed its most distinctive form in New
York in the early 1970s.
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It can be traced from the Latin
dance music of the 1940s, which
used trumpets, flutes and voices,
and the dance rhythms of the
1950s that have varying degrees of
popularity since the RHUMBA,
MAMBO, and CHA-CHA-CHA.
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It was derived from the mambo of

CUBA.
It was imported from Congo by bassist,
ISRAEL “CACHAO” LOPEZ and his
brother pianist, ORESTES of the
Orquesta Radiofonica with EL DANZON
MAMBO (1937).
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They fused RUMBA rhythms with BIG-

BAND JAZZ, and was epitomized by
DAMASO PEREZ PRADO in his
MAMBO JUMBO in 1948.
The MAMBO was a Latin American
dance for the working class.
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This was a midtempo MAMBO

figure recording of “Cherry
Pink and Apple Blossom
White” by Perez Prado in 1955,
which became a genre of its
own.
LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC: RUMBA
It is a family of percussive rhythms, song,
and ballroom dance that originated in
Cuba as a combination of various musical
traditions.
The name derives from the Cuban Spanish
word RUMBO which means party or spree.
It is secular, with no religious connections.
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People of African descent in Havana and
Matanzas originally used the word “RUMBA”
as a synonym for “party.”
The Afro-Euro hybrid style, the Cuban son, has
had an influence on certain popular music in
Africa.
Some of the first guitar bands on the continent
played covers of Cuban songs.
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The early guitar-based bands from
the Congo called their music
rumba.
The Congolese style eventually
evolved into what became know as
soukous.
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It is a genre of Brazilian music, which

developed and was popularized in the
1950s and 1960s and is today one of the
best-known Brazilian music genres
abroad.
The phrase BOSSA NOVA literally means
NEW TREND.
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It is a lyrical fusion of jazz and

samba.
It emerged with the shifting of the
lead to the guitar.
It was a music of the bourgeoisie,
NOT of the working class.
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It left behind the samba,

where people struggled to
make a living, and turned to
the world of beaches,
romance and lazy bohemian
life.
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It became a favorite style of easy-

listening and lounge music.
It acquired a large following in the
1960s, basically among college
students and young musicians.
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REGGAE
It is a music genre that originated
in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
It is sometimes used in a broad
sense to refer to most types of
popular Jamaican dance music.
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REGGAE
It properly denotes a particular music style
that was strongly influenced by traditional
MENTO and CALYPSO music.
Influences were also motivated by
American jazz and rhythm and blues,
especially the New Orleans R&B practiced
by FATS DOMINO
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REGGAE
It incorporates some of the musical
elements of JAZZ, RHYTHM and BLUES,
MENTO, which is a celebratory, rural folk
form that served its largely rural audience
as dance music and an alternative to the
hymns and adapted chanteys of local
church singing, CALYPSO, African music,
as well as other genres.
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REGGAE
One of the most easily recognizable
elements is offbeat rhythms called
STACCATO CHORDS played by a guitar or
piano, or both on the offbeats of the
measure.
The concept of “CALL and RESPONSE”
can be found throughout REGGAE music.
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FOXTROT
It was developed in the United States in
the 1920s.
It was named after its inventor –
entertainer HARRY FOX.
It is often associated with the smooth
dancing style of FRED ASTAIRE and
GINGER ROGERS.
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FOXTROT
It has become one of the most popular
ballroom dances in history.
It is very similar to the Waltz.
Both are extremely smooth dances that
travel along a line of dance
counterclockwise around the floor.
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FOXTROT
The rise and fall action of the Foxtrot
comes from the long walking movements
made by the dancers.
The dance combines quick steps with slow
steps, giving dancers more flexibility in
movement and greater dancing pleasure.
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PASA DOBLE
It literally means as “DOUBLE-STEP” in
Spanish.
It is a Spanish and Portuguese light music,
with a binary rhythm and moderated
movement, probably based in typical
Spanish dances of the 16th century.
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PASA DOBLE
During the 18 century it was incorporated
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in comedies and was adopted as a

regulatory step for the Spanish infantry,
with a special feature that makes the
troops take the regular step – 120 steps
per minute.
The music was introduced in bullfights
during the 19th century.
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PASA DOBLE
It is played during the entrance of
the bullfighters to the ring or
paseo, or during the passes or
faena just before the kill.
It corresponds to the PASO
DOBLE dance.
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PASA DOBLE
It is a lively style of dance to the
duple-meter march-like paso doble
music.
It is patterned after the sound,
drama, and movement of the
Portuguese and Spanish bullfight.
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PASA DOBLE
Famous bullfighters have been
honored with paso doble tunes
named after them.